I was able to have a good conversation with Geraldine Juarez, an artist currently living in New York as a fellow for Eyebeam. She has worked a lot with visual effects and video post production, but her latest work revolves around "lo-tech objects to survive the end of the world." Juarez IS NOT A GREEN ECONOMIST. "For me, a sustainable future based on consuming "with the earth in mind" is the ultimate social disaster. I prefer to stop preparing for the upcoming natural disasters and start acting on the social disaster around me, like consumer capitalism." She doesn't pay for her materials, rather uses methods of hacking, finding, stealing, and recycling. One of her projects was making Postal Gowns from Tyvek postal envelopes that can be found for free at the nearest US post office.
She works in a two person group called Forays. A lot of their projects deal with how people react to space and environment. Some of their projects include installing handmade swings on city streets, making cocoons (hammocks in trees to sleep), and also tackling the issue of edible waste in America (AKA artsy Dumpster Diving). ---Mind you, all made from found/stolen materials.
check out an interview with FORAYS
website
Julez (not giving this gal justice with this half-azz blog post.)
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